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12. S.C.M. POST, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1970
South China Morning Post
THE
A poor defence
meals or food
General Secretary sidised of the International allowances, good attendance and year-end bonuses and Textile and Garment Wor-
kers' Federation in London, paid rest days are taken into account. Mr Green- Mr Greenhalgh, ін not
halgh is also under the false happy about the strictures
impression that women aro against him in these
·forced to work at night just columns last month. llis
because some trade unions attempt in a letter in this
with which ho ia in contact, page to defend himself is
oppone it. An in Britain, pitiful. He says he quoted
women here have the right from newspaper reports.
to refuse might work with- But, by doing so without
out harassment or vic- any serious attempt to timisation. Pertinent safe- verify the contents of these guarda have been provided reports he is still guilty of for them and also as in Bri- half truth or untruth, And tain, Hongkong has a fac- he in où weak ground when tory impectorate to police he contenda that the term,
the regulation, "sweated labour," is junti- fled merely because of the difference between wagen
Home ennen
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Washington, Mag 9. ENATOR Ednun Muskie of Maino
As previously stated and øven admitted by Mr Green- halgh, child labour in not here and thone in Amerien which are the highest in the employed by textile mills or
other repúlable factories, due to travel nomethi work. Obviously, wages
th 5,000 milen though
ad-like must be compared with the loent cost of living not with mittedly exist in unregin-month to oight differe fered workshops. Me Green-| states to deliver mil Atandards prevailing in
halgh pleads that he is only major speeches. All th other countries. As pointed
concerned with givingin on top of his routi out previously wagen in the
Hongkong workern a help work in the Senate, whi textile industry herd Aro
ing band to safeguard their
-includes chuirmmmmhip second only to thone in
interents. A noble thought highly industrialised Jupun no doubt.
But before mak- the sub-committed on a in the Asian region,
Ing_public_statements about and water pollution, t Industrial wagen Inst your working conditions intop subject at the m ranged up to $36 a day for Hongkong, he would be well ment in political interer
Ben Miako Indulgen ↑akilled labour, $24 for nemil- advised to consult the two
extraordinary Apert skilled and $16,80 for un- MP®, Mr Patrick Jenkin and | Thu
real tertus, Mr Erie Moonman, who re-making activity, which loc however, the earnings are rently visited this Colony,paign, partly for the mom much higher when fringe if he cannot make # fient-He gets paid for many of benefita such an subaidined hand study of conditions speeches at a rute of at le or free accommodation, sub- himmelf.
askilled.
Almont like an election em
£300 π time and hin meo from, this course is comput at £30,000 a year. lle a the money to bulld up i nalgfried staff
Choosing the right course alnit of aides.
But another factor is 11 he wants to make bimselt
nationally
IT is understandable that is made it could lead to well-known
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